The Bible is relevant. Preachers can never do better than the text, but because they are teaching people, they need to make sure their sermons are relevant to their audiences. Preaching is teaching the people the truth of the Scripture, it is not teaching the Scripture. This is not mere semantics. It is a valid distinction with a significant difference. Likely this idea is at the heart of Barth’s use of the phrase “making it relevant.” It is equivalent to “make it comprehensible.”9